tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 19 07:27:17 1996
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Re: pIqaDqoq (was: diphthongs)
>Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 15:42:11 -0800
>From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
>
>jatlh ~mark:
>
>Hee hee! You weren't around when a bunch of us were trying to read pIqaDqoq
>off of people's T-shirts at qep'a' wejDIch, were you? I know ghunchu'wI' was,
>as well as Qob and lo'rel, and, I think, janSIy. What a struggle! We really
>had to work it out, letter by letter! "That's a {gh}! I know that! And
>that's . . . ummm . . . a {q}? No, a {Q}? I can't tell them apart . . ."
>
>The point is, few of us can read it anyway, so I for one will be glad if the
>real thing ever gets done! {{:-)
I've gotten okay at reading pIqaDqoq, though I must say I still don't like
it much. What's interesting is that I saw somewhere a T-shirt advertised
(and worn) labeled "Klingon Defense Force" or something with the Klingon
also written in *the same pIqaD the KLI uses*. The mapping is not unique
to the KLI, of course (the ILS uses it, and I think its publication
predates the KLI's very existence), but it is interesting that someone
bothered to use not only correct tlhIngan-Hol, but also *a* conventional
"pIqaD" mapping for the T-shirts.
~mark